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November 2016

NASSAU, Bahamas — Everyone is watching, everyone is curious, and Jordan Spieth had the perfect view of Tiger Woods for his return to golf.

Spieth was on the 17th green and looked across a narrow pond to the ninth tee at Albany Golf Club where Woods stood over his tee shot during the Wednesday pro-am. He saw the swing, but he lost sight of the ball in the glare of the tropical sun.

"Where did it go?" Spieth said as he tried to gauge where the ball might land. "Not in the fairway."

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The Southeastern Conference's two stingiest defenses will take the field in the league championship game.

That's no coincidence.

No. 1 Alabama has kept its end zone off-limits for more than a month and been practically impenetrable to running backs. No. 15 Florida has only given up a few more points per game and flummoxed opposing quarterbacks.

BILLINGS, Mont. — Yellowstone National Park biologists say more than 900 wild bison would need to be killed or removed this winter to begin reducing the size of herds that spill into neighboring Montana.

The park has an estimated 5,500 bison, the highest number since at least 2000.

Park officials meet Thursday with state, tribal and U.S. Agriculture Department representatives to discuss options for managing the animals.

Biologists say 900 would need to be removed just to stabilize population growth.

HELENA, Mont. — A woman who was criminally committed to Montana State Hospital has sued the state, claiming she was sexually assaulted and impregnated by another patient at the psychiatric facility.

In the lawsuit filed last week in District Court in Helena, the woman said the hospital failed to supervise her adequately, leading to the rape that resulted in the birth of a child, Lee Newspapers of Montana reported.

A Department of Public Health and Human Services spokesman declined to comment on the ongoing litigation.

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Gov. Steve Bullock's budget proposal for the next two years includes a 10 percent cut for the Montana Highway Patrol — a $7.7 million reduction that would mean the loss of 27 jobs, most of them troopers.

"The governor is aligning expenses with revenues across the entire budget," Bullock's spokesman, Tim Crowe, told the Bozeman Daily Chronicle (bit.ly/2fDOiMg). The patrol's reduction is its proportion of the reductions in fuel taxes. The Department of Transportation also faces cuts due to decreased fuel tax revenue, he said.

Shields Valley High School will be having Dessert Theatre Saturday, Dec. 3, in the Wilsall School gymnasium.

The drama department, BPA (Business Professionals of America), and the high school art department are all working together to put together this community event. Dessert will be served at 6:30 p.m., and the play “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” written by Richard R. George and adapted from the fantasy by Roald Dahl, will begin at 7 p.m.